What makes up DNA?
What is a phosphate head, deoxyribose sugar, and nitrogen bases.
Growing a new plant from a piece of a plant is a type of asexual reproduction termed?
What is vegetative propagation.
How many pairs of chromosomes are in humans?
What is 23 pairs.
When a prokaryotic parent cell splits into two identical daughter cells.
What is binary fission.
What is the term that describes when the cytoplasm splits or divides during both mitosis and meiosis?
What is cytokinesis.
What is a type asexual reproduction in which a small bump protrudes from a parent cell, enlarges, matures, and detaches.
What is budding.
What is the term that describes when an organism can regrown a WHOLE new organism from just one part?
What is fragmentation.
Briefly explain what takes place during Interphase.
The cell is growing, maturing, copying it's DNA, and preparing for division.
What type of cell division occurs with eukaryotic cells?
What is mitosis.
These are responsible for pulling the sister chromatids apart and moving them to opposite sides of the cell during mitosis.
What is spindle fibers.
What is the scientific name for body cells?
What is somatic cells.
During which phase do the sister chromatids line in the middle of the cell in a single file line?
What is metaphase.
What are the types of asexual reproduction and tell one organism that performs each type.
Budding; yeast, Binerian fission; Bacteria, Vegetative reproduction; potato.
What is the difference between a chromatid and a chromosome?
Chromatid = 1 strand, Chromosome = 2 strands
During what stage of protein synthesis does DNA become RNA?
What is transcription.